The single dumbest idea in the history of…dumb stuff
Christopher Johnson in the Midwest Conservative Journal isn’t impressed:
According to de Wesselow, each supposed sighting of the risen Christ was actually a sighting of the Shroud. He’s convinced it was what sparked the rapid spread of Christianity, as it was taken from Jerusalem to Galilee, then to Damascus, where he believes Paul saw it and became a Christian.
Let’s see. Some women decided Jesus was alive “in the spirit,” whatever that means, just because they saw his burial cloth. Saul of Tarsus changed from arch-persecutor of Christians to arch-Christian who completely changed the world because somebody showed him a picture of the dead Christ.
Right.
That might just be the single dumbest idea in the history of…dumb stuff. That whole concept is so stupid that it’s…stupider than stuff that you thought was really stupid before this. It’s so unbelievably idiotic that…it’s really, really idiotic.
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Is the Shroud real? Probably.
The Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus. The carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless. Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial. Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. So do many other scientists and archeologists. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests. Chemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth. It was probably a mixture of older threads and newer threads woven into the cloth as part of a medieval repair. Recent robust statistical studies add weight to this theory. Philip Ball, the former physical science editor for Nature when the carbon dating results were published, recently wrote: “It’s fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever.” If we wish to be scientific we must admit we do not know how old the cloth is. But if the newer thread is about half of what was tested – and some evidence suggests that – it is possible that the cloth is from the time of Christ.
No one has a good idea how front and back images of a crucified man came to be on the cloth. Yes, it is possible to create images that look similar. But no one has created images that match the chemistry, peculiar superficiality and profoundly mysterious three-dimensional information content of the images on the Shroud. Again, this is all published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
We simply do not have enough reliable information to arrive at a scientifically rigorous conclusion. Years ago, as a skeptic of the Shroud, I came to realize that while I might believe it was a fake, I could not know so from the facts. Now, as someone who believes it is the real burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, I similarly realize that a leap of faith over unanswered questions is essential.
My name is Dan Porter. Please email me at DanielRobertPorter@gmail.com
Dumb is, what dumb thinks, lol…Mr.Johnson is right, I guess de Wesselow didn’t think about Saul of Tarsus and his hate for Christians. It would have been more likely, if the Shroud was all he saw that he would have had the people who had shown him the Shroud arrested and stoned to death for breaking a serious Hebrew Law; (being in possession of a three times unclean burial cloth). Unless one believes the Shroud ‘appeared’ to Saul floating in the air and speaking to him…NOT.
I think it’s pretty obvious to anyone with even a slight knowledge of scripture and of the Shroud, that de Wesselow has not done much research ‘himself’ and just made this all up from a very uninformed imagination…From all the media he’s getting though, I’m sure his goal of making a quick buck will be fullfilled.
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Certainly would have to agree that it is stupid beyond stupid.